Sourcefire announced their Advanced Malware Protection capability this past week which leverages what they call their collective security intelligence cloud.
Because of The Cloud, gap intelligence has the same infrastructure, server capacity, and overall data security as companies 1, 000 times our size.
In considering cloud computing for the Intelligence Community, security is an obvious concern.
Mobile apps combined with the power of cloud computing will allow business intelligence and analytics to become affordable to even the smallest of merchants.
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As a bonus, cloud computing offers defense and intelligence agencies the ability to increase efficiencies and incur marked cost savings during their lifecycles to alleviate some of the pressure of budget reductions.
As a bonus, cloud computing offers DoD and Intelligence Community agencies the ability to increase efficiencies and incur marked cost savings during their life-cycles to alleviate some of the pressure of budget reductions.
Today, through The Cloud and web services, gap intelligence developers are able to crawl hundreds of sites simultaneously.
The best part is the potential for distributing the intelligence anywhere via the cloud, right at the point of care.
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Privately held Five9 is a fast-growing player in this space and publicly traded Interactive Intelligence and inContact also have cloud-hosted solutions.
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That common intelligence agency architecture also used cloud computing technologies.
With groundbreaking video compression technology, OnLive harnesses cloud computing to provide the power and intelligence needed to instantly deliver the latest, premium game titles to any HDTV via the OnLive Game System or nearly any PC and Mac via a small browser download.
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Turning Big Data into actionable data is made possible by at least two key factors: (1) cloud computing, which scales in processing power, thereby allowing (2) the application of business intelligence, which works most efficiently when integrated with the cloud.
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The defense and intelligence communities are not immune to cloud computing.
And third, an Information Cloud where virtualized information is integrated with business intelligence to allow corporations to leverage their data assets to achieve tactical and strategic goals.
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Qualcomm StreamBoost also incorporates an opt-in, cloud-based service that continually increases the intelligence of the router, allowing new applications and devices to be identified and optimally managed as they are added to a network.
Either way, factories have to take advantage of new capabilities enabled by the increasingly rapid convergence of mobility, real-time complex data processing and analytics, cloud based services and machine-to-machine intelligence.
However, most likely, Azure represents a mere bridge from the present paradigm in which the operating system drives the performance of our devices to the next digital paradigm where our devices become mere conduits for Big Data and artificial intelligence platforms that are run from the cloud.
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Over the past couple of weeks, I have been engaged in a series of discussions that have really highlighted to me the critical issue around why our defense and intelligence agencies are moving so quickly to adopt cloud computing.
As of the last annual survey, the three-highest rated priorities for investment from 2012 to 2015 included Analytics and Business Intelligence (BI), Mobile Technologies and Cloud Computing.
Cloud computing is unique in its ability to address these critical defense and intelligence mission needs.
The county is also using SPSS predictive analytics software, Cognos business intelligence software, i2 Intelligent Law Enforcement solution, a private cloud system on zLinux hosted on an IBM System z mainframe and IBM PureFlex System.
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In a report, he highlights how the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Amendment Act (FISAAA) allows US authorities to spy on cloud data.
It seems reasonable that the institutes should operate and collaborate within a secure cloud, similar to the networks where we store our nuclear secrets, tax records and military intelligence.
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In a press release issued last month about the investment, William Strecker, In-Q-Tel's chief technology officer, said the intelligence community is looking for new ways to secure information given the increasing ubiquity of cloud computing.
More than one out four of the 1, 364 organizations surveyed (27%), in fact, already use or plan to use cloud or software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings to augment their core business intelligence (BI) functions.
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